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...Every Ramadan, the Islamists step up not only the pace but the ferocity of their killings," says TIME State Department correspondent Dean Fischer says, adding that this year has been even more bloodthirsty than usual. Victims have been burned alive, hacked to death with machetes, had their throats slit or been mutilated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Season | 1/7/1998 | See Source »

...Mother. There are times you expect Weaver to put her head to the ground to listen to the earth spirit (come to think of it, she does, once). She comes to life only to give life, via a secondary birth canal of sorts, in the form of a slit on her chest. She glares predatorily at everyone, a stern mother who has had it with you kids since she's got the biggest problem child of all, who moves rapidly from the terrible two's to higher body counts in the blink of an eye. Even the space ship feels...

Author: By Nicolas R. Rapold, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fear of Genetics Meets Cellophane and Custard | 12/5/1997 | See Source »

...Saddam Hussein's fanatic commando units charged across the training field. As instructors, clad in ninja black, fired automatic rifles into the sand, the recruits psyched themselves into a frenzy. Suddenly a dog was dragged among them. Its bark turned into an anguished squeal as they slit its throat and disemboweled the beast. Amid the gory scene, the excited volunteers screamed, "Our God, our nation, our leader!" After they finished off the dog, they pulled live rabbits apart, limb from limb. The recruits ripped the raw rabbit flesh with their teeth, smearing their faces with blood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHIPPED TO A FRENZY | 11/24/1997 | See Source »

...MASSACRES In the dead of night, young men carrying rifles, axes and knives sweep into a village or city neighborhood. After shooting the men, the assassins slit the throats of women and children, decapitate the victims and mount their heads on stakes outside. Then the attackers set the bodies ablaze and escape into the darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BEHIND THE HEADLINES ALGERIA: DRUMBEAT OF DEATH | 10/6/1997 | See Source »

PARIS: There was confusion today over the number of casualties in Algeria's latest bloody massacre. The country's national radio reported 98 dead, while locals claimed the figure was nearer 300. According to these sources, victims had their throats slit and several were decapitated, with their heads left on the doorsteps of their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confusion Over Algeria Massacre | 8/29/1997 | See Source »

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